Song Quotes - Page 17

• When you construct a mix tape, the first song you come out with has to be a barnburner.

  Sherman Alexie

  Tape, Firsts, Constructs

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• I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it.

  Shmuel Yosef Agnon

  Father, Years, Firsts

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• Don't try to follow any trends, just concentrate on writing great songs and knowing your instrument. All the other stuff will fall into place.

  Steven Adler

  Fall, Writing, Knowing

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• I only record songs that I really like and believe in and can sing with conviction.

  Trace Adkins

  Believe, Records, Conviction

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• I don't sit down to write a song, per se.

  Creed Bratton

  Writing

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• And I'm the biggest country fan there is, but I'm always a little cautious of a slower song or just a song with subject matter.

  Dierks Bentley

  Country, Fans, Littles

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• As a songwriter, you might write every day and throughout the course of a year you might get four songs that are really special.

  Dierks Bentley

  Writing, Years, Special

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• I try to make an album that reflects what I love about country music. It's not just all about happy parties all the time. There are some sad songs.

  Dierks Bentley

  Country, Party, Trying

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• I think the great country songs mixed with some of that bluegrass instrumentation - and surrounding all that with a little bit of a rock vibe and energy - is the kind of music I make.

  Dierks Bentley

  Country, Thinking, Rocks

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• I'm part of the party, getting the crowd fired up, singing songs, pouring drinks, whatever it takes to get them to have a good time. When I walk into the meet-and-greet, someone's always going to have a story, a sad story or a happy story.

  Dierks Bentley

  Party, Singing, Stories

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• I don't concentrate on technical things like where a microphone is placed and things like that. As a producer, I try to keep the initial feeling from when I first heard a song and make sure we do what were initially aiming for.

  Guy Berryman

  Feelings, Trying, Firsts

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• Magne Furuholmen is a very dear friend of mine. A-ha are a classic pop band and they've got some brilliant songs. I'd say 'The Living Daylights' was one of my favourite Bond tunes: regardless of it being a Bond song, it stands alone as a great piece of music.

  Guy Berryman

  Tunes, Band, Pieces

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• I felt alive when I read a script and acted out a scene, or sang a song. It was my dream. I'm just very lucky that I'm still doing it and able to earn a living from it.

  Luke Evans

  Dream, Lucky, Alive

  "Luke Evans Exclusive Interview TAMARA DREWE; Plus Updates on Tarsem’s IMMORTALS, THE THREE MUSKETEERS and VIVALDI". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 7, 2010.

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• Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it's a universal language. You don't have to understand music to understand the power of a pop song.

  Paul Epworth

  People, Language, Pops

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• I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.

  Faith Evans

  Writing, Kids, One Day

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• I've never been good at rock'n'roll songs, anyway; either I'm blessed or I'm cursed, but whatever I write comes out sounding old.

  Justin Townes Earle

  Blessed, Writing, Rocks

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• What I'm doing is basically the same as Bob Dylan did with folk songs and Woody Guthrie songs, the same as folk music's always done. I'm not going to sing about ploughing, but I'll write a song that sounds like it should be about ploughing.

  Justin Townes Earle

  Writing, Bob, Sound

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• You have to live what you write, or you have to know it. There are exceptions, like story songs, where you just have to have your facts straight. But I think you don't have to live a hard life to be a good or interesting songwriter.

  Justin Townes Earle

  Writing, Thinking, Interesting

  "Harlem River Blues Man". Interview with Michael Slenske, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 23, 2011.

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• Prince used to call me up 3am in the morning and invite me to hear some of his new songs.

  Sheena Easton

  Morning, Used, Call Me

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• I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.

  Zac Efron

  Writing, Guitar, Long

  "All New Q&A with Zac Efron". Interview with Audrey Fine, www.seventeen.com. June 2, 2006.

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• There are probably five songs in the world that I get excited about when I hear them on the radio.

  Sia Furler

  World, Radio, Excited

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think the fans really wanna hear the songs the way they sound on the record.

  Ace Frehley

  Thinking, Records, Way

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• I was tired of my lady, we'd been together too long, like a worn-out recording of a favorite song.

  Rupert Holmes

  Relationship, Tired, Long

  Song: Escape, Album: Partners in Crime

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• You can fool some of the people part of the time in a rock and roll song, fifty million Elvis Presley fans can't be all wrong.

  John Prine

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, People

  Song: Ain't Hurtin' Nobody, Album: Lost Dogs and Mixed Blessings, 1995

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• Follow me and do exactly what the song says
  Smoke weed, take pills, drop outta school, kill people
  And drink and jump behind the wheel like it was still legal.

  Eminem

  Weed, School, People

  "Song: 'Role Model'". 1999.

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